Eden Robinson
Haisla/Heiltsuk novelist EDEN ROBINSON is the author of a collection of novellas written when she was a Goth called Traplines , which won the Winifred Holtby Prize in the UK. Her next novels, Monkey Beach and Blood Sports , were written before she discovered she was gluten-intolerant and tend to be quite grim, the latter being especially gruesome because half-way through writing it, Robinson gave up a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit and the more she suffered, the more her characters suffered....See more
Haisla/Heiltsuk novelist EDEN ROBINSON is the author of a collection of novellas written when she was a Goth called Traplines , which won the Winifred Holtby Prize in the UK. Her next novels, Monkey Beach and Blood Sports , were written before she discovered she was gluten-intolerant and tend to be quite grim, the latter being especially gruesome because half-way through writing it, Robinson gave up a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit and the more she suffered, the more her characters suffered. Even so, Monkey Beach won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. By the time Eden began her Trickster Trilogy, however, she had given full rein to her matriarchal tendencies. The first book, Son of a Trickster , became a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and Canada Reads. Trickster Drift , the second book in the trilogy, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2017, Eden was awarded the Writers' Trust Fellowship. She lives in Kitamaat Village, BC. See less
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Son of a Trickster
Not for me
by Marcia, May 19, 2020
I saw a recommendation of Robinson's trilogy, of which this book is part, by a writer in the New York Times, so thought I'd like it, but I was put off by so much crudity and tasteless subjects in the ... Read More